That's just an axiom for me, no justification needed. My life is my life and it is not the business of the state to watch every step I do as long as I am not affecting others in any relevant way. You convince me that I or society as a whole would be better off if I allowed the state to constantly keep an eye on me, then I might change my opinion and grant the state the permission to violate my privacy.

It’s guaranteed by our constitution, among other reasons. Search of my communications for no reason is, by definition “unreasonable search.”

If you want to argue that they can scan people outside the country and not US citizens, and that that has a benefit, go ahead and make that argument. You might even convince me.

But it’s just begging the question to say there’s immense benefit to them searching US citizens’ communications without a reason.

That’s the whole question.

Show me why we should change the constitution which guarantees us freedom from this sort of government oppression.

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